Midwifery Care during High Risk PregnancyLaajuus (3 cr)

Objectives

The student
- knows the most significant evidence-based theory of midwifery regarding the high-risk pregnancies, pregnancy related disorders and their recognition, follow up and treatment
- is able to describe the methods of foetal and maternal screening and follow up during the high-risk pregnancies
- knows the principles of medication in the high-risk pregnancy and is able to solve medical calculations accurately
- is able to analyse, reflect and solve the ethical conflicts in midwifery

Content

- high risk pregnancies and their evidence based follow up and treatment
- support of parenthood in the high-risk pregnancies
- societal problems and substance abuse during pregnancy
- foetal screening methods in the high-risk pregnancies
- medication in the high-risk pregnancies
- cases examples of the ethical conflicts in midwifery

Prerequisites

The student must have completed 135 credits of nursing studies including Anatomy and Physiology and courses of Perioperative Nursing, Maternity Care and Gynaecological Nursing. Supervised clinical training could not be started before completing all theoretical and clinical nursing studies. Participated to Supervised Clinical Training 6, Pre-pregnancy, Supervised Clinical Training 9, Midwifery during Childbirth I.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student
- is able to describe the main points of the evidence-based midwifery regarding the high-risk pregnancies, pregnancy related disorders and their recognition, follow up and treatment
- is able to solve medical calculations accurately and knows the principles of medication in the high-risk pregnancy
- is able to describe the ethical conflict in midwifery in a simply way

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student
- is able to identify the most significant high-risk pregnancies and disorders and describes extensively their evidence based follow up and treatment.
- is able to solve medical calculations accurately and knows the principles of medication in the high-risk pregnancy
- is able to describe and reflect the ethical conflicts in midwifery widely and based on the scientific evidence and ethical rules

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
-is able to implement extensively the evidence based theory of the high-risk pregnancies in midwifery
- is able to solve medical calculations accurately, knows the basis of medication in the high-risk pregnancy and knows the challenges related the medication
- is able to analyse and reflect the ethical conflicts in midwifery widely, extensively and in detail based on the scientific evidence and ethical rules